On the equality front, the Ministry of National Education and Youth communicates a lot, but acts little.
MEANS TO END PAY INEQUALITY AND PRECARITY
Across society, wage inequalities exist and persist at a high level of 22% to the detriment of women. On the scale of a paid working day, women should stop working from 3:40 p.m. to take into account wage inequalities.
In the public service, supposed to be exemplary, the situation is no better: women represent 73% of staff in National Education but their average net salary also remains 15% lower than that of men. The Pact which is part of the process of so-called upgrading of teaching staff is, here again, particularly harmful to women. In the same way, precarious jobs, whose missions make the balance between private and professional life complicated, are increasing and are still mainly occupied by women. They offer poor career prospects and are poorly paid. This is the reality of AESH who are 93% women. These personnel and this profession are therefore emblematic of the emergencies identified by the national action plan in favor of professional equality between women and men. Precariousness has no place in national education, nor in universities, nor elsewhere.
MEANS TO END SEXIST AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE
While one in three women are victims of sexual harassment in their workplace during their lifetime, the procedures provided for by the circular of March 9, 2018 relating to the fight against sexual and gender-based violence in the civil service are not or little applied in national education. However, the “Equality between women and men” agreement in the public service explicitly states that public employers have a duty to set an example in this area and that the principle of zero tolerance must be effective. For our trade union organizations, reporting and support systems must now be deployed in all territories and dedicated resources must be identified. Staff must also benefit from training in collecting the words of pupils and students with whom they are in daily contact throughout the year, in order to alert services specializing in taking responsible for these types of violence. Neither women, nor gender minorities, nor children should suffer gender-based or sexual violence in our establishments. Rigorous and clear protocols must be disseminated to respond to the urgency of victims’ situations in order to protect and support them. Our organizations FSU, UNSA, CFDT-SGEN, CGT and SUD education are calling for March 8 to be a major feminist strike day to fight for the rights of women and gender minorities in the education sector. Our trade union organizations support the mobilization of women and gender minorities around the world, particularly in countries where murderous repression reigns and where women’s most fundamental rights are violated.
Women do not have to receive a maternity injunction and the President of the Republic should be more concerned with including the right to abortion in the constitution than with encouraging women to have more children or more. consider reducing parental leave to 6 months. The “demographic rearmament” announced by the Head of State is part of a reactionary policy of controlling women’s wombs and uteruses for political purposes in the xenophobic context of the vote on the immigration law. Women’s fertility has never been a public health priority until now, as shown by the difficulties in accessing assisted reproduction for single women or lesbian couples or even egg freezing. It is time to take steps to preserve women’s health. It is high time for the Ministry of National Education and Youth, but also for Higher Education, to implement menstrual leave. The invisibility of menstrual pain and endometriosis at work leads to the normalization of pain, making us silent in the face of pain and perpetuating the taboo of periods. Menstrual pain is minimized, made invisible or considered normal. However, they weigh on the remuneration of menstruating people who suffer the waiting day when pain prevents them from going to work.
Nearly one in two women say they suffer from dysmenorrhea (painful periods).
- 65% of female employees have already faced difficulties related to their periods at work.
- 19% have given up going to work due to painful periods.
- 27% did not dare to tell their supervisor that they were unable to work because of their periods (painful, too intense, too heavy flow, etc.).
- 35% say that their menstrual pain negatively impacts their work.
- 1 in 10 women suffer from endometriosis.
Our organizations FSU, UNSA, CFDT-SGEN, CGT and SUD education are calling for March 8 to be made a major day of struggle for women’s rights, including in the education sector.
Our organizations claim:
- equal pay between men and women and the reduction of working hours to enable a balance between private and public life.
- initial and continuing training for staff dedicated to the fight against sexist stereotypes and inequalities between women and men, deployed in all academies and accessible to a large number of agents each year.
- real education in equality, sexuality and against sexist stereotypes for students.
- the systematic benefit of functional protection reinforced by the Equality protocol for women who denounce gender-based and sexual violence at work and domestic violence.
- specific training for all staff in dealing with gender-based and sexual violence at work but also on the interest and issues of menstrual health, in order to improve knowledge and remove taboos.
- Specific means to implement immediate salary recovery measures for women discriminated against throughout their careers and ambitious financing of equality policies included in the Equality action plans.
- the implementation of menstrual leave in the form of ASA (Special Absence Authorization), for twenty days per year. The request for ASA for indisposition due to uncomfortable symptoms linked to one’s menstrual cycle will not need to be supported by proof, and will have no waiting day or deadline.
- the recognition of endometriosis as a long-term condition as ALD 30 (100% coverage of approved care and travel without advance costs, sick leave without waiting days, adjustment of working hours, etc.)
- the provision of periodic protection in all establishments: as essential products, they must be accessible in the same way as toilet paper in schools and higher education establishments for pupils, students and staff.
- massive recruitment of occupational doctors, trained in occupational health.
- the benefit of the annual medical examination for all staff.
Communiqué IS 8 MARS
2024-03-04 16:56:48
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